When Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess shot Peluca, his short comedy film about a nerdy high school kid, he didn’t expect it to become a feature-length film. But that’s what happened. The BYU film student based a lot of the movie on his own experiences growing up in a rural area of Idaho. Here’s what Hess said about the personal experiences that shaped his career-making cult classic.
Jared Hess grew up in small-town America Before landing at BYU film school with his friend, actor Jon Heder, Jared Hess lived in Preston, Idaho. Read More...
In character, sort of. From playing a ghastly burn victim to a mute butler with a penchant for dolls to an enormous — cough — con artist, Denis O’Hare has appeared in a number of guises since the first season of American Horror Story. For the upcoming fifth season, O’Hare returns as a cross-dressing employee at the Hotel Cortez’s bar named Liz Taylor. “I have an amazing costumer, Lou Eyrich, and she puts me in amazing clothes,” O’Hare told Vulture at Saturday’s American Horror Story: Hotel red-carpet premiere. Read More...
